Sentences with phrase «stagnating achievement»

As such, implementing Bright IDEA is an attempt to address the low number of students in AIG, the underrepresentation of minority groups and socioeconomically disadvantaged students in AIG, and the stagnating achievement of students in AIG.

Today, our nation's education system continues to face stagnating achievement gains, despite nearly 10 years of federal education reform efforts.

Policymakers and reform advocates alike have rallied around introducing a set of national content standards, suggesting that this will jump start the stagnating achievement of U.S. students.

Not exact matches

RESULTS Dr Suzanne Rice, Senior Lecturer in Education Policy and Leadership at the University of Melbourne found in her analysis of the national 2016 report that overall Australian achievement had stagnated.

In another study for the Fordham Institute, Loveless found a clear pattern in the late 1990s when states adopted accountability regimes: the performance of the lowest decile of students shot up, while the achievement of the top 10 percent of students stagnated.

While student achievement improved in some participating schools, it stagnated in others, the study found.

Expert Offers Ideas on How to Improve U.S. Education Ventura County Star, December 10, 2011 «The decline in graduation rates in the United States comes not because the American education system has lost ground, but because the U.S. has stagnated, while other countries have surged ahead, according to Ronald F. Ferguson... a Harvard University professor and director of the Achievement Gap Initiative.»

Teachers unions only won the privilege of engaging in collective bargaining in the last 50 years, about when student achievement began to stagnate and costs to soar.

As educators have become increasingly aware of the stagnating black / white and Latino / white achievement gaps, schools and districts have committed to addressing those gaps by supporting initiatives that can create equity, such as preschool interventions, extended school days, and summer programs.

Over the past several years, the achievement gap has grown or stagnated in most cities.

But Tennessee students» reading scores on NAEP have stagnated, and substantial achievement gaps remain.

«The PSEA hurts taxpayers by lobbying for increased property and state taxes that we can ill afford, all while student achievement statewide has stagnated over the last decade.»

Learning gains have stagnated, progress toward closing the «achievement gap» has stalled, and their constituents increasingly reject the strategy.

Posted on April 11, 2018 · National exam results show Texas and the nation stagnating in academic achievement for elementary and middle school students.

The National Governors Association and Council of Chief State School Officers, two nonprofit coalitions, developed the Common Core out of a concern that the United States was falling behind on international measures of student achievement and stagnating on its own benchmarks of success, like the National Assessment of Education Progress.

Despite all this new staff, student academic achievement has stagnated — or even declined — over the past several decades.

These recommendations, created with input from a coalition of statewide and Aurora - based organizations could dramatically improve the district's stagnating student achievement and student growth statistics.

Conventional wisdom holds that many, if not most, education schools are doing a poor job at training teachers; after all, they have a history of taking in some of the lowest performing students, and student achievement in the United States has stagnated.

For instance, Sweden's catastrophic decline in educational performance on PISA since its introduction of for - profit free schools has taken it away from the high performance of other Nordic countries and towards England and the United States, with declining equity and stagnated student achievement.

Reading and math scores for the nation's 12th graders have stagnated since 2009, according to new data published today, prompting U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to urge for an overhaul of the nation's high school model and amplified efforts to narrow the achievement gap for minority students.

While progress to close racial achievement gaps has stagnated and income achievement gaps have grown, recent case studies enthusiastically describe «transformational» schools, which claim to

While the 2016 election brought a renewed interest in engagement among youth, 4 only 23 percent of eighth - graders performed at or above the proficient level on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) civics exam, and achievement levels have virtually stagnated since 1998.5 In addition, the increased focus on math and reading in K - 12 education — while critical to prepare all students for success — has pushed out civics and other important subjects.

Reading achievement in the United States has stagnated.

Fact, state takeovers of school districts do not yield improvements in student achievement; rather, more often than not, student achievement is stagnated during the short term and delayed over the long term.

Breaking with its steadily upward trend, California's annual test scores have stagnated, with fewer than half of students proficient in math and English, and a wide ethnic achievement gap persisting.

Nevertheless, the audit team concluded that student achievement for many AIG students is not improving, but rather was stagnating.

Texas, like the nation, has stagnated in elementary and middle school academic achievement and continues to fail to get black and Hispanic students performing as well as white students, according to a national «report card» out this week.

CA TEST SCORE COVERAGE CA math, language arts test scores level off — and achievement gaps persist scpr.org/news/2017/09/2… [note contrast with LA Times] California's students stagnate on standardized tests — but -LSB-...]

While progress to close racial achievement gaps has stagnated and income achievement gaps have grown, recent case studies enthusiastically describe «transformational» schools, which claim to establish conditions that enable students — primarily poor students of color — to achieve at levels far higher than their social background predicts.